diff --git a/tools/build/conf/pom.xml b/tools/build/conf/pom.xml
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+++ b/tools/build/conf/pom.xml
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+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>org.onlab.tools</groupId>
+  <artifactId>onos-build-conf</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0</version>
+</project>
+
diff --git a/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/checkstyle.xml b/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/checkstyle.xml
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+++ b/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/checkstyle.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+        "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+
+<!--
+
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+
+    - some best practices
+
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+
+-->
+
+
+<!--
+   The default severity setting in checkstyle is 'error', so some
+   of the rules below are configured to change the severity to
+   'warning'.  Over time, these 'warning' settings should be 
+   removed as more of the ONOS source code is modified to
+   follow the recommended rules.
+-->
+
+
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+    <!-- Checks that a package-info.java file exists for each package.     -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage -->
+    <!-- ONOS does not currently supply package level Javadoc information
+         in package-info files -->
+    <!-- <module name="JavadocPackage"/> -->
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+        <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+        <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
+        <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+        <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+    <!-- <module name="Header"> -->
+    <!--   <property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.header.file}"/> -->
+    <!--   <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/> -->
+    <!-- </module> -->
+
+    <module name="SuppressionCommentFilter">
+        <property name="offCommentFormat" value="(CHECKSTYLE\:OFF|Generated by the protocol buffer compiler.)"/>
+        <property name="onCommentFormat" value="CHECKSTYLE:ON"/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter">
+        <property name="commentFormat" value="CHECKSTYLE IGNORE THIS LINE" />
+        <property name="checkFormat" value=".*" />
+        <property name="influenceFormat" value="0" />
+    </module>
+
+    <!-- Example: // CHECKSTYLE IGNORE FinalClass FOR NEXT 1 LINES  -->
+    <module name="SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter">
+        <property name="commentFormat" value="CHECKSTYLE IGNORE (\w+) FOR NEXT (\d+) LINES"/>
+        <property name="checkFormat" value="$1"/>
+        <property name="influenceFormat" value="$2"/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <module name="FileContentsHolder"/>
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <module name="JavadocMethod">
+            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
+            <property name="allowUndeclaredRTE" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="JavadocType">
+            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable">
+            <!-- Suppress check for private member Javadocs.
+             Possibly revist fixing these. -->
+            <property name="scope" value="public"/>
+            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+	<!-- @author tag should not be used -->
+        <module name="WriteTag">
+            <property name="tag" value="@author"/>
+            <property name="tagFormat" value="\S"/>
+            <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+            <property name="tagSeverity" value="error"/>
+        </module>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName">
+            <!--  ONOS allows the name "log" for static final Loggers -->
+            <property name="format"
+                      value="^log$|^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(_[A-Z0-9]+)*$"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport">
+          <property name="allowStaticMemberImports" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/>
+        <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <module name="LineLength">
+            <!-- ONOS standard usage is 80 columns, but we allow up
+             to 120 to not break the build. -->
+            <property name="max" value="120"/>
+            <property name="ignorePattern" value="^import"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="MethodLength">
+            <property name="max" value="200"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+
+        <!-- Disabled for ONOS.  Default rules specify undesired behavior for the '?' operator -->
+        <!-- <module name="OperatorWrap"/> -->
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround">
+            <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
+            <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+
+        <!--  Disabled for ONOS to allow use of public          -->
+        <!--  modifiers in interfaces.                          -->
+        <!-- <module name="RedundantModifier"/>                 -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks">
+            <!-- ONOS alows declarations inside of switch case blocks -->
+            <property name="allowInSwitchCase" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <!-- ONOS allows conditional operators -->
+        <!-- <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/> -->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+
+        <module name="HiddenField">
+            <property name="ignoreSetter" value="true"/>
+            <property name="ignoreConstructorParameter" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+
+        <!-- Many violations of this rule present, revist in a
+        subsequent round of cleanups -->
+        <!-- <module name="MagicNumber"/> -->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+
+        <module name="RedundantThrows">
+            <property name="allowSubclasses" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <!-- ONOS produces many warnings of this type.
+        Fixing all of these is outside the scope of the current cleanup. -->
+        <!-- <module name="DesignForExtension"/> -->
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier">
+            <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
+        </module>
+
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+
+        <!--  Many violations of this rule currently, too many to fix
+        in the current cleanup. -->
+        <!-- <module name="FinalParameters"/> -->
+        <!-- ONOS allows TODO markers in checked in source code -->
+        <!-- <module name="TodoComment"/> -->
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+      </module>
+
+    </module>
diff --git a/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/suppressions.xml b/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/suppressions.xml
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+++ b/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/suppressions.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN" "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
+
+<suppressions>
+     <!--
+        Note: Exclusion definition exists in multiple places.
+        - In file ${findbugs.excludeFilterFile} defined at top of pom.xml
+        - In file conf/checkstyle/suppressions.xml (this file)
+        - maven-pmd-plugin configuration in pom.xml
+          (under build and reporting)
+     -->
+
+    <!-- Suppressions for ONOS -->
+    <suppress files="edu.stanford.ramcloud.*" checks="[_a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
+    <suppress files="net.floodlightcontroller.*" checks="[_a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
+    <suppress files="net.onrc.onos.core.datastore.serializers.*" checks="[_a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
+
+    <!-- BigSwitch packet code is designed to use parameter names that override
+         local member names -->
+    <suppress files="net.onrc.onos.core.packet.*" checks="HiddenField"/>
+
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="FinalParametersCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="MagicNumbersCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="DesignForExtensionCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="TodoCommentCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="AvoidInlineConditionalsCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="OperatorWrapCheck"/>
+</suppressions>
+